Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILAThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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